Grace Clinton

About

Grace Clinton (born 31 March 2003) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for English Women’s Super League (WSL) club Manchester City and the England national team. Clinton started her senior career at Everton before moving to Manchester United. She had loan spells at Bristol City, where she won the 2022–23 Championship title, and Tottenham Hotspur.
Clinton earned PFA Women’s Young Player of the Year honors in 2024 and was named to the PFA WSL Team of the Year for the 2023–24 season. She was named Bristol City Women’s Young Player of the Year for the 2022–23 season. She was part of the England squad which won UEFA Euro 2025.

Clinton came through the Everton academy. In preseason ahead of the 2020–21 campaign, then-16-year-old Clinton was called up to train with the first team after manager Willie Kirk singled her out as “a really talented teenager, but she’s probably our sixth-choice midfielder. She could play for every Championship team and possibly a couple of WSL teams.” He did, however, note room for improvement in her game defensively, stating she was “a little bit frustrating because she was a little bit lazy out of possession…